EMPLOYMENT HOUSEHOLD MOTHER MANAGEMENT IN GUIDING NUTRITION FOR BABY UNDER FIVE YEARS AND CHILDREN IN BUKIT AGUNG VILLAGE, KERINCI KANAN DISTRICTS, SIAK REGENCY
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2019-04-01
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Latifa Siswati
M.Rizal
Ambar Tri Ratnaningsih
Riski Novera Yenita
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Households play an important role in regulating family health by regulating the nutrition intake of toddlers and children. Sources of food available in the yard can be used to be a healthy and nutritious food by processing these ingredients properly. It needs to empower housewives in managing nutrition and toddlers by utilizing food sources in the vicinity. The purpose of dedication is 1) Empowerment of housewife in regulating child and child nutrition, 2) Increasing knowledge and skill of housewife in processing food that exist in home yard into healthy and nutritious food. The activity was held in Bukit Agung Village, Kerinci Kanan District, Siak Regency, Riau Province. The method used is counseling and training. The technique of selecting the participants is done by purposive sampling, ie farmers who use their home yard for medicinal plants, food crops, horticulture, fish and others that can potentially meet family needs. The results of this activity indicate that after counseling there is increasing knowledge of housewife about nutritious food source for toddler and child equal to 20,83% and nutritional benefit for growth and development of child equal to 25%. Once given training housewives can take advantage of available food sources in the yard of his house into a variety of healthy and nutritious foods such as pudding and meatballs